Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/12/05
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On 3 Dec 97, Patrick G. Sobalvarro wrote:
> Actually, the f/64 guys (Weston, Adams, Van Dyke, and their followers,
> who in rebelling against pictorialism formed the f/64 school) don't
> know anything very well. They're dead. But even when they were
> alive, they couldn't have known very much about diffraction, or they
> wouldn't have been under the impression that the name "f/64" would
> connote ultimate sharpness.
<snip>
Yeah, watch those verb tenses, Eric.
Actually, the f/64 gang may not have been thinking as much about
sharpness as DOF. Have a look at my new and very elementary
web site at:
http://www.primenet.com/~beamon
I've linked to the f/64 Group Manifesto, the forward of which mentions
this.
No photos yet as I have no scanner. Just trying to get conversant with
HTML. Boy, what a job for an OF! (That's "old fellow", guys and gals!)
No wonder I gave up on Basic, Fortran, C, Perl etc. And, HTML is easy
by comparison.
- --
Roger Beamon
Naturalist & Photographer
mailto:beamon@primenet.com
Thought for the day:
Success in politics often requires
rising above your principles.